George Mason Quotes:
Ocupation: Statesman
Life: December 11, 1725 - October 7, 1792
Birthday: December 11
Death: October 7
When the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British parliament was advised by an artful man [Sir William Keith], who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people. That it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them. But that they should not do it openly; but to weaken them and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia.
source: George Mason's address to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 14, 1788.
topic: Men, Gun, America, Handguns, Disarming, Framers, 2 Amendment, Militia, Founding Fathers Gun, Founding Fathers Second Amendment, British Parliament, Amendment 1, Amendment 13, Bearing Arms, Guns In America, Handgun Ban
